Hop on board and scoot, rattle 'n' roll

I like riding high and dry, clean and green but pedestrians can be roadblocks

Sat, Oct 14, 2017 - 5:50 AM

You cannot put into words the joy when you ride home in peak-hour traffic at 5.30pm, passing a sea of marooned cars while secretly gloating, all of them bygones of an earlier era as you ease silently, futuristically, happily, but perhaps rather slowly, past.

PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

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